Episode 196 - The Dirt Gets Wrecked

Y'all, it has been a TOUGH WEEK. You can tell because Anna somehow manages to get the episode intro WRONG after doing it correctly nearly 200 times. But we're just gonna keep swimming! We couldn’t do a month-at-sea theme without talking about shipwrecks. And it’s not just pirate ships and the Titanic, either. We’ll discuss all kinds of underwater assemblages and the ways in which shipwreck archaeology helps us understand travel, life, commerce, connectivity, and more.

Links

• Dokos shipwreck (Wikipedia)

• Oldest Intact Shipwreck Discovered in the Black Sea (Smithsonian Magazine)

• Ancient Shipwreck (Archaeology)

• The Oldest Intact Shipwreck “Odysseus” was an Ancient Greek Vessel (Greek Reporter)

• Stamnos - The Siren Vase (British Museum)

• How the world's deepest shipwreck was found (BBC Future)

• Made in China (National Geographic)

• The Belitung Shipwreck (SEAArch)

• Silk Roads Programme (UNESCO)

• NOAA, partners discover wreck of 207-year-old whaling ship (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

• The Science of Shipwrecks (North Carolina Sea Grant)

• Episode 86 - Check Yourself Before You Shipwreck Yourself (The Dirt)

• How scientists keep ancient shipwrecks from crumbling into dust (Popular Science)

• Giant freeze dryer to preserve famous shipwreck (The History Blog)

• Sustainable Nanotechnologies for Curative and Preventive Wood Deacidification Treatments: An Eco-Friendly and Innovative Approach (Nanomaterials)

• The Salvage (Vasa Museet)

Image: The shipwreck of the SS American Star off the coast of the Canary Islands: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0